Ok, I'm a Linux newbie and just installed RedHat 8.0 to my computer. I've managed to figure everything else out, but I'm having problems installing/running MPlayer...

I downloaded and installed all the required rpm-packeges, but when I try to run the program with the "gmplayer"-command, I get the following message:

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc4-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/Tuomas/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/Tuomas/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/Tuomas/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)
Reading /home/Tuomas/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/Tuomas/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 135 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/Tuomas/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/Tuomas/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds
SKIN dir 1: '/home/Tuomas/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found ( default ).

What's wrong? Or are there any better programs to view mpg and avi files?

well just like error message clearly says, it can't find the default skin... install the mplayer-skin package, if it is already installed check where they have been installed to.

Hmm, I tought I had the default skin package already installed... Well, I installed it again and now it seems to be working.

Thanks for the help.